Size and Shape Dependence of the Photocatalytic Activity of TiO2 Nanocrystals: A Total Scattering Debye Function Study.

作者:Cernuto Giuseppe; Masciocchi Norberto; Cervellino Antonio; Colonna Gian Maria; Guagliardi Antonietta*
来源:Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2011, 133(9): 3114-3119.
DOI:10.1021/ja110225n

摘要

Nanocrystalline TiO2 samples, prepared for smart textiles applications by the sol-gel technique in acidic or basic media, have been characterized by synchrotron X-ray powder diffraction and total scattering methods based on a fast implementation of the Debye function and original algorithms for sampling interatomic distances. Compared to the popular and widely used Rietveld-based approaches, our method is able to simultaneously model both Bragg and diffuse contributions and to quantitatively extract either sizes and size distribution information from the experimental data. The photocatalytic activity of the investigated samples is here systematically correlated to the average sizes and size distributions of anisotropically shaped coherent domains, modeled according to bivariate populations of nanocrystals grown along two normal directions.

  • 出版日期2011-3-9